Immigrant pleads guilty to running a brothel, faces deportation

TRENTON – An undocumented immigrant who ran a Chambersburg brothel for five months pleaded guilty Monday and was told he faced immediate deportation.

Cervando Sanchez, 35, who spoke through an interpreter, said he wasn’t really guilty of maintaining a public nuisance at 806 Division St. between January and May of 2013.

But after consulting again with Assistant Mercer County Public Defender Jamie Kohl Sanchez entered the guilty plea and was told by Superior Court Judge Pedro Jimenez he’d be sentenced to time he’s already served awaiting trial.

But the judge and prosecutor also noted that federal immigration authorities already have a detainer on Sanchez, meaning he’s be turned over to them for deportation to the Dominican Republic as soon as he walks out of the Mercer jail.